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Surviving School Reform: A Year in the Life of One Schoolreviewed by Judy Randi - 1997 Title: Surviving School Reform: A Year in the Life of One School Author(s): Laraine K. Hong Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York ISBN: 0807735205, Pages: 197, Year: 1996 Search for book at Amazon.com Promising to convey the "sweat and tears
of school reform" (p. xv), Surviving School Reform chronicles the
trials and tribulations encountered by Jefferson Elementary
educators making their way through one turbulent year in their
quest for school reform. By the late 1980s, Jefferson was already
hard at work planning to become one of Washington state's first
"Schools for the Twenty-First Century." Perhaps lured by funding
and almost certainly cheered on by the school's new principal, a
group of eleven staff members and six parents mapped out their
vision for a new Jefferson. The result was a seventy-five page
proposal, a busy blueprint for a "Developmental Community School"
incorporating "innovative" approaches to learning, including
cooperative learning, whole language, multicultural education,
integrated curriculum, and multiage grouping.
Readers learn about these ambitious plans a few pages into the
first chapter when the vision that launched Jefferson's voyage is
unfolded in a flashback. But before this, readers are treated to a
description of who really counts at Jefferson, a glimpse of
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- Judy Randi
Teachers College, Columbia University E-mail Author Judi Randi is adjunct assistant professor, Teachers College, Columbia University. She is coauthor, with Lyn Corno, of "Teachers as Innovators," in The International Handbook of Teachers and Teaching, eds. B. Biddle, T. Good, and I. Goodson (Kluwer, 1997).
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